On paper this looks like an incredible qpr. Jamie Goode from the wineanorak.com gave it 94 points, Wine Spectator gave it 93, Stephen Tanzer 91 and Lisa Perotti-Brown from the Wine Advocate gave it 89 points. These scores combined with the wine being a Pinot Noir and a price tag below $30 is something you rarely see.
Micheal Seresin moved to Italy in the 1960's. There he developed an interest for food and wine. In the 1990's he started to look for opportunities to start a winery in Italy, but became aware of the wine making development in his home country New Zealand, and decided to move to Marlborough and start a winery. The first vintage for Seresin was in 2000.
Today, Seresin produces 19 different wines. The Seresin website says this about the vineyard where the Leah Pinot Noir is made: "The fruit comes from our clay rich hillside Raupo Creek vineyard, the alluvial shingles of our Tatou vineyard and the Home vineyard, which is made up of a variety of Waimakariri type soils of alluvial origin. Eight different parcels were hand-picked between April 2 and April 19."
This is a fruit forward wine with ripe raspberry jam, sour cherries, plum and spices. The finnish has fruit jam and spices mixed with sour cherries, but lack a bit length. The fruit is ripe and sweet, but the wine is kept in balance with some very nice sour cherries. Too me, the sourness of this wine is the best part. 88 points
This is a nice new world Pinot Noir. It has the Pinot fruit that I love. It doesn't have the Burgundy elegance or complexity, but that is fine. The fruit is a bit on too much on the ripe side for me, it gets a hair sweet for my palate. But the sour cherries really save and make this wine. For the price, this is a really nice Tuesday wine.
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